Automobile-radiator.



F. M. CAPELL. AUTOMOBlLE RAmATom APPLICATEON FILED MAY 23. I916.

Patented Oct. 9, 1917.

FRANK MILTON OAPELL, OF LOCKPOB'ILNEW YORK.

AUTOMOBILE-RADIATOR.

' Specification 0! Letters Patent.

Patented 006.9. 1917.

Application filed May 28, 1916. Serial No. 98,262.

7?) all Ii /w!!! it will com-mm Be it known that. I, FRANK Mmrou Carson,a citizen of the United States. and a resident-of l'mckport. in therounty of Niagara and Stato of New York, have inronted a new andImproved Antoinobilw Radiator, of \rhirh the following is a full; clear,and rxaut llfiflfl'lhtlllll.

My invent-ion rolales to automobile radiators known as the slraigzhtjhiho radiator. The onlinury straighi lulw radiator has tho defect. thatthe cooling liquid passes loo rapidly therothrough and lhorei'ore theradiation is not pork-rt. "lho ohjool of the in \oution is to obviatethe aliovr drfecli and to produce a simplo and ollirieut radiator.

Willi tho all-ore and other ohjools in \lPW, t-ho nature of'whirh willmore. fully appear as tho description proeords, lhc inventionoousisls inthe novel construction. rolnhination andarraugemont of parts as hrroinfully des rilu'd. illustrated and claimed. In tho accompanying drawings.forming purl;

of tho appliention. similar clan-actors of; l'rforum'o nulu'ate. mu'resunuhug parts mall .the YIBWH- Figure l is a |rl!i'SP(!il,l\'l!fragmonlary view of a radiator sea-Lion oinhodyunz my invontinn Fig.Lwis a perspective virw of a spaurr:

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary horizontal s wtiou throughtlmradiator on line 3.Fig. l: and

Fig. 4 is a sertion through a lube for :i mailing liquid.

livi'eri ing to the drawings, the lube 5 is jungles to rat-h other. 'lhoridges a diviilo the tube 'inlo a pluraiity of sinuous passago-i \vhirhim'roasa [he palh of travel of the cooling liquid. It will he notedthaltho l-uho formed has only a singlostraighl. seam at one edge. Thisso-l'oruled tuhe has not only a longor path of travel for the rooling,lili

their length to form a series of rhaunels 8; '60 the .\lli'(l$.'-ll\lehaanels H" lacing open on the l,

opposilisidos of lhe spacer. "l'ho button of a oarh rhannel has a seru sof lialllos 9 depressed therefrom lnln the rhaiinol. these" halllesforming defleotolx "orpihe an n'lueh passos through the rhannei anddirmrls the an against the surface of thr tulle; Whero the halllos 9 areIn rogistvr with the rulgrs u of tin tuhos they help to lirrel 'tho airthrough the ridges \Vllllll illi'JIl th r' form of narrow grooves. thuslhe air rirrolaling through the channels fornnul hy the spacors and [hesidos of the isubos is also rausrd to elreulate through ihr ridges'llll'll .ai'e'ihs posod transversely of therhannels. "lhr flii halllosl lllt'l'lllhk' the radiating surlare of tho radiator. 1 3 "l'he'sinuous path presented by tho tuhes iolhe cooling medium. the haflles intho air rhunnels.l'olnied h'v llusslracers \\'ll;ll tho'80 tuhes. and(he partialrirrnlatioh of lilo air lhrough the ridgoswhir-lrfo'rui thesilllmus. path for the rooliiu liquid all help In inorrasotheI-llirienry of the radiator. 'l'he riilgesi Fnrthm',materially inerrasetho stri-ngth of 8 Lho strum-tore. in (llllSl'llllClll'l of which the."resulting radiator is not suhjwle-illo disarrangeluent. due to thecontinuous vihration to whii-h it is suhjertrd.

l ola'im:

prising tubes for a cooling nn-Ilium. ea'rh having longi'ludimrlsilllloils-J'hlgfrs lna'wted ohannuls disposod transreisvlv of'lhesi|\iious passages in the llllu'R. the ad aronla' U rhanuels in thespar-ins haying theiifholii'ungr fl; on oppositesides, andllilllllfl'lll sa d alum-i;-

lu-ls slanuwd out from Ila lml-tpnl tl'n'reof' \i-harl-hr warnings are,foruieih la 'ths llnlloin of'lho ehannel. substantially as and forlhopnrposr sol; fort radiator of the olass diw'rihed. eonu am an ,Mmroaoarnnn a l 1

